Re: AW: Re: Backup and Recovery - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: AW: Re: Backup and Recovery
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Msg-id 6790.994425243@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to AW: Re: Backup and Recovery  (Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at>)
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Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at> writes:
>> Ideally the archiving
>> process would also discard records from aborted transactions, but I'm
>> not sure how hard that'd be to do.

> Unless we have UNDO we also need to roll forward the physical changes of 
> aborted transactions, or later redo records will "sit on a wrong physical image".

Wouldn't it be the same as the case where we *do* have UNDO?  How is a
removed tuple different from a tuple that was never there?
        regards, tom lane


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